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Enhancing the gender-equitable potential of aquaculture technologies
Type: Brief
Gender inequality constrains the real and potential capacity of women farmers to successfully adapt their farming practices in the face of climate risks or to develop stronger, more diversified livelihood portfolios that ...
Engaging women and men in community-based resource management processes in Solomon Islands
Type: Book
Gender refers to the process of being fair to women and men, in order that women and men can equally access opportunities and life choices regardless of their sex. It has been proposed that local and national management ...
Understanding adaptive capacity and capacity to innovate in social-ecological systems: Applying a gender lens
Type: Journal Article
Development policy increasingly focuses on building capacities to respond to change (adaptation), and to drive change (innovation). Few studies, however, focus specifically on the social and gender differentiation of ...
Livelihoods, markets, and gender roles in Solomon Islands: case studies from Western and Isabel Provinces
Type: Working Paper
Livelihoods in Solomon Islands are diverse, composed of a wide range of activities. The marketing of marine resources through value chains is an important component of this livelihood portfolio in many parts of the country. ...
Gender-equity or gender-equality scales and indices for potential use in aquatic agricultural systems
Type: Report
This report summarizes existing gender equality/equity scales or indices found in a review of the literature, conducted to inform the design and evaluation of a communication intervention to generate community-based, ...
Understanding the gender dimensions of adopting climate-smart smallholder aquaculture innovations
Type: Working Paper
This study explored how climate-smart agricultural and aquaculture innovations may lead to more successful climate adaptation efforts and enhanced resilience for both men and women in households and across communities, as ...
Socio-cultural dynamics shaping the potential of aquaculture to deliver development outcomes
Type: Journal Article
There is growing appreciation of the role of aquaculture in diversifying livelihoods of the poor. However, prevailing cultural norms and values, and social relations often influence its development outcomes, which we explore ...
Innovation and gendered negotiations: Insights from six small-scale fishing communities
Type: Journal Article
There has so far been limited investigation into gender in relation to innovation in fisheries. Therefore, this study investigates how gender relations shape the capacity and motivation of different individuals in fishing ...
Bringing analysis of gender and social-ecological resilience together in small-scale fisheries research: Challenges and opportunities
Type: Journal Article
The demand for gender analysis is now increasingly orthodox in natural resource programming, including that for small-scale fisheries. Whilst the analysis of social-ecological resilience has made valuable contributions to ...
Measuring gender transformative change
Type: Brief
Agricultural research programs try to measure their contribution to a range of desired development outcomes, such as poverty reduction, food security, environmental sustainability and gender equality. This paper argues ...